Hillary is a lit match in a room of dynamite. She, like many of the self-important, thinks her very existence is a favor to the rest of us. She epitomizes the absolute worst of what America has become. Above the law, wealthy not through accomplishment, but through influence peddling only, and a bull in a china shop in terms of her effect on both the country and the world.
Chindit13
October 14, 2016
The Elite “Have No Idea” – Society Is Near The Breaking Point
[I have nothing to add.—Joe]
I’m at the breaking point.
…
It’s not because I don’t like paying taxes. I have voted for every park, every library, all the school improvements, for light rail, for anything that will make this city better. But now I can’t afford to live here anymore. I’ll protest my appraisal notice, but that’s not enough. Someone needs to step in and address the big picture.
Gretchen Gardner
May 2014
Surge in property tax bills spurs push to reform tax appraisal process
[I’m not sure I’ve seen a better case for the “Crap For Brains” category.
As Margret Thatcher said, “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” But this bimbo can’t seem to comprehend this even when she is the one running out of money.
The big picture is that people this stupid shouldn’t be allowed to vote.—Joe]
In order to continue to exist and to prosper, life on Earth needs one more trick, the one thing that not one of the marvelous inventions of all the eons past had ever been able to accomplish. There has to be some way,somehow, to wrench the locked carbon up out of the earth, to throw it back into the air.
We are that way. We make the keys that unlock the carbon from the stone and return it to the world. We are the solution to the impending extinction of life and this is the most important story ever heard.
Forrest Bishop
July 2016
The Solution to the Ice Age Extinctions
[H/T to Rolf.—Joe]
The use of the lefts term “gun control” is completely wrong. It infers that guns are somehow out of control and need to be curtailed. Clearly this is not the case, but every time we use that term we subtly reinforce the idea that controlling guns has anything to do with something except a nice tight grouping.
It’s a restriction of our constitutional right or an infringement of our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.
Every time you feel the urge to type or say “gun control” replace it with what’s really happening.
Brian
October 2016
Editor’s Corner: Stop Trying to Make “Gun Control” Happen, It’s Not Going to Happen.
[I have nothing to add.—Joe]
You are wasting your time if you try to make someone see reason when reason is not influencing the decision. If you’ve ever had a frustrating political debate with your friend who refuses to see the logic in your argument you know what I mean. But keep in mind that the friend sees you exactly the same way.
When politicians tell lies they know the press will call them out. They also know it doesn’t matter. Politicians understand that reason will never have much of a role in voting decisions. A lie that makes a voter feel good is more effective than a hundred rational arguments. That’s even true when the voter knows the lie is a lie.
If you’re perplexed at how society can tolerate politicians who lie so blatantly you are thinking of people as rational beings. That world view is frustrating and limiting. People who study hypnosis start to view humans as moist machines that are simply responding to inputs with programed outputs. No reasoning is involved beyond eliminating the most absurd options. Your reasoning can prevent you from voting for a total imbecile but it won’t stop you from supporting a half-wit with a great haircut. If your view of the world is that people use reason for their important decisions you are setting yourself up for a life of frustration and confusing. You will find yourself continually debating people and never wining except in your own mind.
Few things are as destructive and limiting as a world view that assumes people are mostly rational.
Scott Adams
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
2013
[Adams articulates this better than I have been able to.
I keep wanting to believe, and to a great extent behaving as if, people are rational. This is despite my frequent claim that it is irrational to expect people to be rational. I know it’s not true, I get frustrated that it is not true, and I sometimes just want to retreat from contact with the general population.
I’m extremely lucky that Barb and I share nearly identical irrational views of reality and rationality.—Joe]
Small penis alert 
YA GIRL CHILLARY@H_Clinton11
Tweeted on January 22, 2016 in response to:
Come and take it. Bring 30 ambulances.https://t.co/OKiBkoJtF5
— ScottInSC (@ScottInSC) November 3, 2015
[It’s another Markley’s Law Monday!
Via a tweet from ScottInSC and a tweet from Linoge.—Joe]
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
Charles Mackay
1841
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds
[I look around me and, if I look closely enough, I see this nearly everywhere.
We have such a tenuous grasp on reality it is scary.—Joe]
I think the U.S. will default. It has to.
But we will be okay. This is because we will still have all the stuff and they will just have paper.
Brett
October 7, 2016
[Brett is a co-worker of mine.
He goes on to say that in the case of a default the multinational companies are screwed. This is because our foreign creditors will seize the assets in their countries.—Joe]
Those who need to know already know what the following means. If it’s not crystal clear to you then don’t worry about it. It’s not for you. It’s more fun and games for the NSA:
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No government, no thieves.
Felix Pastor
October 2, 2016
Spaniards, Exhausted by Politics, Warm to Life Without a Government
[This is probably a bit of an exaggeration but I’m certainly willing to test the concept to find out if a similar conclusion is warranted in our country.
How about we start the experiment on the first of next year?—Joe]
Those who need to know already know what the following means. If it’s not crystal clear to you then don’t worry about it. It’s not for you. It’s more fun and games for the NSA:
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No one is opposed to charity, but the problems come in as soon as we’re talking about coercive redistribution disguised, or excused, as “charity”. One is a beautiful thing, while the other is horrible, destructive and deadly, yet who can put their finger on the difference?
The national conversation treats the those two opposites as though they are equal, yet anyone would understand the difference between the Girl Scouts showing up at your door asking for a donation in exchange for cookies, and an armed thug holding you up at gunpoint. When government implements a redistribution ruse, they’re acting as that armed thug with a gun, and the fallout is much the same except worse– That government thug never gets prosecuted, and so the crimes increase in scale and frequency until the criminals end up running everything. Eventually the whole society is degraded and eventually destroyed.
Lyle
October 4, 2016
Comment to Quote of the day—Phoebe Maltz Bovy
[I’m reminded of a cartoon I saw the other day:
There’s so much truth in it that I have to laugh and cry at the same time.—Joe]
A medical marijuana CARD (not use) is now Second Amendment disqualification, according to a decision of the uber-liberal federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. In a case with no parallels, a woman who obtained the card to show support for the medical-marijuana movement — but who doesn’t use pot — has been disqualified from her constitutional rights, for possession of the plastic card. Wherever you may stand on the drug issue, even the statute itself requires drug use, not government permission-slip possession. In its decision, this Court introduced the idea that you might not be sufficiently mentally OK at times to bear arms, so summarily removing your rights is totally is fine. Whether this applies to beer, over-the-counter medicine that might cause drowsiness and any other mental evaluations was not addressed, but surely can’t be far behind in the minds of those who can come up with a decision like this, would seek any means to control the public.
Alan Korwin
September 12, 2016
Attack On Gun Rights Takes New Shapes
[The Second Amendment—void where prohibited by law. Or court. Or political whim.—Joe]
On the pro-gun-control side of things, there’s far too much timidity. What’s needed to stop all gun violence is a vocal ban guns contingent. Getting bogged down in discussions of what’s feasible keeps what needs to happen—no more guns—from entering the realm of possibility. Public opinion needs to shift. The no-guns stance needs to be an identifiable place on the spectrum, embraced unapologetically, if it’s to be reckoned with.
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
December 10, 2015
It’s Time to Ban Guns. Yes, All of Them.
[I have to wonder how much timidity she would have in taking point on those door-to-door raids.
Don’t ever let anyone get away with telling you that no one wants to take your guns.—Joe]
I’m just saying, boys. This is a bit different from the gun nut/micropenis correlation but no less important. #copolitics #gunsense
Alan Franklin@alanfranklin
Tweeted on January 22, 2016
[It’s another Markley’s Law Monday!
Via a tweet from Linoge.—Joe]
I stand in support of this common sense legislation to license everyone who wishes to purchase a gun. I also believe that every new handgun sale or transfer should be registered in a national registry.
Hillary Clinton
June 2, 2000
Hillary Clinton offers support for gun licensing bill; Lazio wraps up three-day bus tour
[See also here and here.
Keeping Hillary out of the White House is essential to the free exercise of the specific enumerate right to keep and bear arms.—Joe]
This November, I refuse to again vote in favor of being controlled. I was once utterly defenseless at the mercy of a person who felt entitled to my life, and I refuse to allow that to ever happen again.
I am no longer the victim Hillary needs. I am a survivor. And this November, you can be, too.
Kimberly Corban
September 27, 2016
Not The Victim Hillary Needs
[I have nothing to add.—Joe]
If I could I would take all the guns in America, put them on big barges and go dump them in the ocean, nobody would have a gun. Not police, not security, not anybody. We should eliminate all of them. We could save 33,000 people a year if we didn’t have guns in this country.
…
They are a scourge of this country and no one should have one as far as I’m concerned. There’s no defense to guns. There’s just absolutely no reason to have them.
Kenneth Walker
Multnomah County (Portland, Oregon) Circuit Court Judge
September 28, 2016
All guns in U.S. should be dumped in ocean, judge says
[Why someone with such an astounding lack of understanding of such issues is a judge instead of reaching the peak of his career shoveling pig manure is a mystery to me.
But the real thing to remember is that you should never let anyone get away with telling you that no one wants to take your guns.—Joe]
I’m not sure whether to say “faster, please” or worry about what Skynet might do with an army of mind-controlled cockroaches.
Stephen Green
September 21, 2016
21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Mind-Controlled Nanobots Used to Release Chemicals in Living Cockroaches.
[I would worry more about the nanobots releasing chemicals into the brains of people thinking “wrong thoughts”.—Joe]
Those who need to know already know what the following means. If it’s not crystal clear to you then don’t worry about it. It’s not for you. It’s more fun and games for the NSA:
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Because Clinton has been sued so many times for non-compliance with subpoenas, for destroying evidence, for purging servers, for crushing cell phones with hammers, and generally for hiding information, the State Department – with its thousands of government employees – is unable to provide the public with what may be the most important glimpse into Hillary’s allegedly criminal activities: the not so arbitrary deletion of up to 15,000 emails.
Tyler Durden
September 23, 2016
“This Is An Absolutely Corrupt Process” – Clinton’s Deleted Emails Won’t Be Released Until After The Election
[I get it now!
What it boils down to is that it is sort of like the kids lemonade stand shutdown by the authorities for not having the proper business permits and health inspections. Hillary went through the permitting process by obtaining the political connections and reputation for ruthless destruction of those who oppose her. Then, with the proper “permits” in place she committed criminal acts on such a scale everyone thought of it as “business as normal” and it is simply “too much work” to enumerate her crimes.
Good to know. This is news you can use in the future.—Joe]
Those who need to know already know what the following means. If it’s not crystal clear to you then don’t worry about it. It’s not for you. It’s more fun and games for the NSA:
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Taking action to prevent terrorists from having access to assault weapons would be a good start. However, it seems that in the waning days of this Congress, there is more appetite for advancing un-American and counter-productive proposals such as closing the borders to Muslims or ethnically profiling whole communities.
To reiterate what Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson has testified to Congress, that with the current threat picture, homeland security cannot be achieved without sensible gun control laws.
Bennie G. Thompson
House Homeland Security Committee ranking member (D-Miss)
September 21, 2016
Homeland security means keeping assault weapons off our streets
[Sometimes I’m just amazed that people can say and believe the things they do. Immigration from other countries is not a constitutionally protected right. There isn’t anything more American than our country’s founding document. The right to keep and bear arms is a specific enumerated right protected by that document. Is this guy’s mind that well partitioned that he can’t connected what he wrote in consecutive sentences?
The only way this makes sense to me is that people say things with the knowledge, at some level, people will hear what they want to hear. The anti-gun politician will say they “respect the Second Amendment and they don’t want to ban guns”. The next sentence will be that they “support the banning of assault weapons”. It could be that those sort of contradictory messages work on both the receiver and the sender. They say and hear what they want depending upon individual biases of the person at that particular moment. And those biases change from second to second. For example, one second they are of the opinion that the Bill of Rights is important and should be respected. The next second they believe nothing should stand in the way of preventing terrorists from murdering innocent people. They somehow cannot make the connection that these two beliefs are incompatible.
It could be this a built-in psychological mechanism common to almost all people.
I view it as some sort of mental illness.—Joe]
Those who need to know already know what the following means. If it’s not crystal clear to you then don’t worry about it. It’s not for you. It’s more fun and games for the NSA:
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@statasiore I dont need a weapon to face the world nor do I need a surrogate @NRA penis-anyway u indulge urself so 31k get shot ea yr in US
The left honourable @bamboozled3
Tweeted on January 12, 2016
[It’s another Markley’s Law Monday!
Via a tweet from Linoge.—Joe]